Dynamic access control for secure group communication in wireless sensor networks

Fan Wu, Hao Ting Pai, Xinxin Zhu, Pei Yun Hsueh, Ya Han Hu

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Abstract

The concept of secure group communication (SGC) has recently appeared in the filed of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). To design a dynamic, efficient, and secure group access control scheme is one of the essential issues. Although several studies have made progress in terms of access control, their methods are inadequate for SGC-based WSNs. This paper proposes a dynamic access control scheme (DACS), which can fulfill the requirements of dynamic, efficiency, and security. Specifically, the DACS offers the following advantages. Every sensor node needs to compute hash computation only once and then can obtain the corresponding group access key, whether in the initialization or in the maintenance. In addition, the task manager (i.e., the administrator) can flexibly generate the secure filter function for every entity (i.e., the sensor nodes or other devices) to derive the corresponding group access key, regardless of whether the relation among entities is hierarchical or horizontal.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationECTI-CON 2011 - 8th Electrical Engineering/ Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI) Association of Thailand - Conference 2011
Pages288-291
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event8th Electrical Engineering/ Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI) Association of Thailand - Conference 2011, ECTI-CON 2011 - Khon Kaen, Thailand
Duration: 17 May 201119 May 2011

Publication series

NameECTI-CON 2011 - 8th Electrical Engineering/ Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI) Association of Thailand - Conference 2011

Conference

Conference8th Electrical Engineering/ Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI) Association of Thailand - Conference 2011, ECTI-CON 2011
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityKhon Kaen
Period17/05/1119/05/11

Keywords

  • access control
  • cryptography
  • secure group communication
  • structure-free
  • wireless sensor networks

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